Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) sealed general victory on the UAE Tour after he positioned second behind Adam Yates (UAE Crew Emirates) on stage 7 to Jebel Hafeet.
Yates started his onslaught with 6km to go, when solely Evenepoel and Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) may comply with his preliminary acceleration. Evenepoel later took up the pace-making and distanced Kuss from the group, however the world champion was in flip dropped by Yates with 3km remaining.
After initially falling 15 seconds behind Yates, Evenepoel drew nearer with a thunderous effort within the closing kilometre, however he needed to accept second on the stage, 10 seconds down on the Briton.
Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R-Citroën) got here dwelling in third at 42 seconds, with Kuss an additional 5 seconds again in fourth.
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) and Luke Plapp (Ineos) crossed the road 54 seconds down.
That was sufficient for Plapp to seal second general, 59 seconds down on Evenepoel, however Bilbao was got rid of the rostrum by Yates due to the time bonus for stage victory.
“The tactic was to go full gasoline on the backside. We had nothing to lose. I used to be to this point down on the GC after the crosswind stage, we simply needed to go all out from the underside and see what occurred,” Yates mentioned. “The blokes did a tremendous job. I attacked fairly early however I knew I needed to push actually onerous to drop the blokes. And eventually I managed to do it.”
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